Chapter Summaries

Li Yan rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his student and told his parents he believed dragon-type Soul Rings could help his twin Luo Sanpaos evolve. His father agreed to support him, and Yu Xiaogang arrived at their courtyard gate.

• Yu Xiaogang stopped Li Yan outside Nuoding Academy and offered to teach him theory, but Li Yan refused and went home.
• Li Yan’s mother welcomed him with a meal of Hundred-Year Soul Beast meat, and his parents worried that his Martial Soul Awakening had failed because of them.
• Li Yan reassured his parents that his level-six Innate Soul Power was fortunate and explained that dragon-type Soul Rings might awaken the bloodlines in his Luo Sanpaos.
• Father Li laughed at Li Yan’s teasing and resolved to support his son’s ambition by helping him obtain powerful Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang knocked at the courtyard gate and called for Dean Li.

Yu Xiaogang tried to make Li Yan his student for five hundred Gold Soul Coins a month, but Li Gang drove him out after he insulted his son. Li Yan then asked for Whale Rubber and discovered that his Luo Sanpaos could absorb it directly, strengthening themselves and passing some benefit back to him.

• Yu Xiaogang offered to teach Li Yan theory for five hundred Gold Soul Coins a month, but Li Gang refused and told him to leave.
• Yu Xiaogang called Li Yan a good-for-nothing, so Li Gang used Martial Soul Possession and kicked him and his Sanpao out of the courtyard.
• Li Yan told Li Gang he was close to reaching level seven Soul Power and asked him to obtain Whale Rubber from Nuoding City.
• Li Gang gave Li Yan a piece of roughly three-hundred-year Whale Rubber from an iron box.
• Li Yan fed pieces of the Whale Rubber to both Luo Sanpaos and found that they absorbed it, grew stronger, and gave him cultivation feedback.

Li Yan broke through to level seven Soul Power with the help of the two Luo Sanpaos, then prepared to enroll at Nuoding Academy and meet Tang San. After Li Gang returned with two-thousand-year-old Whale Rubber, Li Yan used it to boost his cultivation and began the next day with a morning run.

• Li Yan and the two Luo Sanpaos cultivated through the day, and Li Yan broke through to level seven Soul Power.
• Li Yan agreed to enroll at Nuoding Academy and planned to meet Tang San before Yu Xiaogang could recruit him.
• Li Gang returned drunk from the city lord's residence with two-thousand-year-old Whale Rubber for Li Yan.
• Li Yan gave a small piece of the Whale Rubber to Luo Sanpao, whose feedback strengthened Li Yan and increased his Soul Power.
• Li Yan woke the next morning, noted the Whale Rubber's effects, and set out for a morning run with Sanpao.

Li Yan stopped Yu Xiaogang from taking Tang San as his disciple and warned Tang San about him, then brought Tang San home to register at the academy and share a meal. Tang San felt the warmth of Li Yan’s family and longed for Mother Li to be his own mother.

• Li Yan intervened when Wang Ergou tried to block Tang San’s enrollment and offered to take Tang San into Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang chased after Li Yan and Tang San, but Li Yan and Tang San outran him.
• Li Yan told Tang San about Yu Xiaogang’s alleged failings and warned him to stay away; Tang San agreed to cultivate with Li Yan.
• Li Yan helped Tang San complete his registration and invited him home to get bedding and food.
• Mother Li welcomed Tang San and urged him to eat, leaving Tang San wishing she were his mother.

Li Gang broke through to rank forty and welcomed Tang San into his family, then rewarded him with academy support after learning of his Innate Full Soul Power. Li Yan advised Tang San to seek a Senluo Tree Kui Soul Ring, and Li Gang planned to gather trusted companions for a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Mrs. Li served Tang San a generous breakfast, and Li Gang broke through to rank forty while cultivating overnight.
• Li Gang welcomed Tang San, learned that he had Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power, and awarded him five hundred Gold Soul Coins plus academy-funded Soul Rings.
• Li Yan advised Tang San to seek a roughly four-hundred-year-old life-type plant Soul Beast, recommending the Senluo Tree Kui from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Gang agreed to contact trusted companions before taking Tang San to hunt for a Soul Ring and asked Li Yan to find a suitable Soul Beast for him as well.

Li Yan and Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Tang San as a disciple after discovering his Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power. Li Yan returned and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s advice about Tang San’s first Soul Ring, leaving the two paths set against each other.

• Li Yan left Tang San at Dorm Seven after Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and became the dormitory’s nominal boss.
• Yu Xiaogang found Tang San’s Martial Soul certificate and assumed he had a hidden Second Martial Soul, then brought food and bedding to recruit him.
• Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offers and challenged his credentials, while Yu Xiaogang claimed Tang San could only become his nominal disciple.
• Li Yan returned and agreed to compare his Soul Ring recommendation with Yu Xiaogang’s advice.
• Yu Xiaogang recommended a Mandala Snake for Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and the control path of Entanglement and poison.
• Tang San said Li Yan’s plan was best, and Li Yan recommended that Tang San follow the life path.

Li Yan helped Tang San avoid Yu Xiaogang’s recruitment attempts and arranged for Tang San and Li Gang to hunt Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest. A month later, they returned, and Tang San eagerly showed Li Yan his new First Soul Skill.

• Li Yan took Tang San away after arguing with Yu Xiaogang about the life path and arranged for them to hunt Soul Rings with Li Gang in three days.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Xiao Wu as his disciple, but she rejected him after learning he claimed an affiliation with Spirit Hall.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu grew closer while Yu Xiaogang repeatedly approached them, and Tang San joined Li Yan and Li Gang for their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Yan continued training for a month, reaching level eight and a half before Tang San and Li Gang returned.
• Tang San revealed his Yellow Soul Ring and used his First Soul Skill, Myriad Senluo, for Li Yan.

Tang San showed Li Yan his powerful first Soul Skill, and the two became sworn brothers after Li Gang returned with Whale Rubber. Tang San went back to Nuoding Academy, where he found Yu Xiaogang confronting Xiao Wu and threatening to insult Li Yan again.

• Tang San demonstrated Myriad Senluo, revealing that it spread Blue Silver Grass across an area, redirected damage, and could harden into a weapon.
• Li Gang reported reaching level forty-two after his group fought a Golden Jiao, and he brought Li Yan a supply of four-thousand-year Whale Rubber.
• Tang San asked to become Li Yan’s sworn brother, and they pledged their bond over a meal at Li Yan’s home.
• Tang San returned to Nuoding Academy while Li Yan began cultivating with Whale Rubber, aiming to reach level nine Soul Power.
• Tang San found Yu Xiaogang confronting Xiao Wu outside Dorm Seven and angrily challenged him after Yu Xiaogang criticized Li Yan.

Tang San and Xiao Wu beat Yu Xiaogang after he tried to recruit them, then fled his summoned Luo Sanpao’s foul attack. A month later, Li Yan reached level ten and planned to hunt a Dark Demon Dragon for his first Soul Ring, while Xiao Wu offered to share a location in exchange for carrots.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu beat Yu Xiaogang, who retaliated by using Luo Sanpao’s stink attack to drive them away.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu bought new bedding after the gas made Dorm Seven unusable, and Xiao Wu later became a frequent visitor to Li Yan’s home.
• Li Yan broke through to level ten and chose a Dark Demon Dragon as his intended first Soul Ring, weighing the risks of absorbing one.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu congratulated Li Yan, and Xiao Wu offered to tell him where her family had found a black dragon-type Soul Beast.
• Li Yan offered Xiao Wu a thousand carrots for the location.

Li Yan traveled with Li Gang to Suotuo City to ask Wang Hong for help finding a dragon-type Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring. After a caravan report revealed a black stone forest in the Star Dou Great Forest, Li Yan recognized it as the place from Xiao Wu's sketch and asked Wang Hong when they would go.

• Li Yan and Li Gang traveled to Suotuo City and visited Wang Hong at Wang's Trading Company.
• Li Yan asked Wang Hong to help find a dragon-type Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring, and Wang Hong agreed to ask his caravan guards about a black-rock location.
• Wang Hong learned that a caravan had suffered heavy casualties after taking a shortcut through the Star Dou Great Forest and encountering a Soul Beast in a black stone forest.
• The caravan leader marked the forest's route on a map, and Wang Hong gave the map to Li Yan.
• Li Yan compared the route with Xiao Wu's sketch, recognized the location, and asked Wang Hong when they would go.

Li Yan traveled with Li Gang and Wang Hong to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his First Soul Ring, then found a mysterious black-and-gold stone at a roadside stall. After bringing it back to the inn, he discovered it contained Dragon Qi and increased his cultivation speed.

• Li Yan persuaded Wang Hong to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest that afternoon, and they reached the nearby town after dark with Li Gang.
• Li Yan and Wang Hong browsed stalls, where Li Yan sensed a mysterious black-and-gold stone and bought it after several worthless stones.
• Li Yan tried blood, water, cultivation, and other methods to activate the stone, but it showed no response.
• Wang Hong failed to damage the stone with his bear claws or flames, so Li Yan took it back to his room.
• Li Yan summoned two Luo Sanpao, which cultivated beside the stone, and discovered that it boosted his cultivation speed by thirty percent and contained Dragon Qi.

Li Yan traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and absorbed a nearly six-hundred-year-old Dark Demon Dragon as his First Soul Ring. The ring transformed his Martial Souls and granted him a powerful skill, Dragon's Descent.

• Li Yan cultivated overnight with the stone's boost, then set out with Li Gang and Wang Hong for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The three reached the Black Stone Forest, where a Dark Demon Dragon cub followed them away from its territory.
• Wang Hong knocked out the cub, and Li Yan killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• The stone compelled the Dark Demon Dragon's spirit to submit, allowing Li Yan to absorb nearly all its energy and rise past level thirteen, close to level fourteen.
• Li Yan's two Luo Sanpaos became more dragonlike, and he demonstrated Dragon's Descent, which gave him and his Martial Souls dragon claws, boosted their attributes by 200 percent, and protected him from control-type Soul Masters.

After obtaining his First Soul Ring, Li Yan returned to Nuoding Academy and showed Tang San and Xiao Wu his improved strength. He challenged Tang San to a spar, which began with Tang San covering the area in Blue Silver Grass.

• Li Yan tested his strength in the forest, then left with Li Gang and Wang Hong and returned to Nuoding City after buying Whale Rubber from Wang's Trading Company.
• Li Yan reunited with Tang San and Xiao Wu at Nuoding Academy and explained that his First Soul Ring came from a nearly six-hundred-year-old Dark Demon Dragon.
• Li Yan urged Tang San and Xiao Wu to use Whale Rubber and said he aimed to obtain a thousand-year Second Soul Ring; Tang San considered attempting one too, while Xiao Wu objected to being left out.
• Li Yan and Xiao Wu fought, and Li Yan and the two Luo Sanpaos quickly gained the upper hand until Xiao Wu surrendered.
• Li Yan challenged Tang San to spar, and Tang San activated Myriad Senluo, filling the area around them with Blue Silver Grass.

Li Yan defeated Tang San in a spar and revealed that his first Soul Skill negated control effects. Back at the academy, he confronted Yu Xiaogang about his theories and showed that his Luo Sanpao Martial Soul had evolved into dragons, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned by Li Yan’s claim that his own Martial Soul could never evolve.

• Li Yan used Sanpao to break Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass restraints, then overwhelmed him until Tang San yielded.
• Li Yan told Tang San that his first Soul Skill negated all control effects, while Xiao Wu worried that Li Yan could challenge her standing as Nuoding City’s boss.
• Yu Xiaogang approached Li Yan and mocked his presumed Ten-Year Soul Ring, but Li Yan and his companions walked away as Xiao Wu complained about him.
• Yu Xiaogang chased them and blocked their path, and Li Yan challenged him over the origins of his Martial Soul theories and his slow cultivation.
• Li Yan summoned his dragon Martial Souls, and Yu Xiaogang demanded to know how Luo Sanpao had evolved.
• Li Yan refused to explain and told Yu Xiaogang his Martial Soul could never evolve; then he took Tang San and Xiao Wu to the cafeteria, leaving Yu Xiaogang muttering in disbelief.

Five and a half years after Yu Xiaogang failed to evolve Luo Sanpao, Li Yan, Tang San, and Xiao Wu graduated from Nuoding Soul Master Academy and considered their next steps. Li Yan proposed visiting Shrek Academy, and the chapter ended with the three planning to discuss their future with their parents.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to make Luo Sanpao evolve by feeding it white radishes, but its farts knocked him unconscious.
• Five and a half years passed, and Li Yan, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reached age twelve and prepared to graduate.
• Li Yan had reached level 45 with powerful dragon-type Soul Rings, while Tang San reached level 35 and Xiao Wu reached level 32.
• Li Yan proposed checking out Shrek Academy before going to Heaven Dou City, where he planned to build a faction.
• Xiao Wu agreed to join Li Yan and Tang San at Shrek Academy after learning its strongest member was a level 76 Soul Saint, and the three decided to discuss their plans with their parents.

Li Yan, Tang San, and Xiao Wu graduated from Nuoding Academy and prepared to travel to Suotuo City, where they planned to attend Shrek Academy. Yu Xiaogang also set out for Suotuo City to recruit promising students and train them to defeat the trio, while Li Yan’s caravan stopped after learning that Soul Masters were fighting ahead.

• Xiao Wu, Li Yan, and Tang San shared breakfast with Mother Li, then told her they planned to attend Shrek Academy in Suotuo City.
• The trio completed their graduation procedures and encountered Yu Xiaogang, who was leaving for Suotuo City after receiving Flender’s letter.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to recruit Flender’s promising students and train them to defeat Li Yan and the others, then boarded a carriage to Suotuo City.
• Li Yan, Tang San, and Xiao Wu joined a caravan bound for Suotuo City, which Li Yan’s father had already traveled to escort.
• After the caravan passed through the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, a Soul Elder reported that Soul Masters were fighting ahead, and Li Yan ordered everyone to wait.

Li Yan’s convoy rescued Zhu Zhuqing from three masked Soul Masters pursuing her through the Star Dou Great Forest. After Little Black defeated the attackers, Li Yan let them go, suspecting they had been sent by someone Zhu Zhuqing knew.

• Tang San sensed three Soul Masters chasing a girl with a purple cat Martial Soul, and Li Yan recognized the girl as Zhu Zhuqing and ordered his companions to help her.
• Li Yan urged Zhu Zhuqing to approach the convoy, and Little Black caught her after a Soul Skill grazed her in midair.
• Li Yan welcomed the wounded Zhu Zhuqing and refused the masked men’s demand to hand her over.
• Little Black quickly defeated the Soul Elder and Soul Grandmaster, then knocked the Soul Ancestor into a tree.
• Li Yan let the three masked men withdraw and told Zhu Zhuqing that the Soul Ancestor’s actions suggested someone she knew had sent them.

Zhu Zhuqing joined Li Yan, Tang San, and Xiao Wu on their journey to Shrek Academy, where she learned that her fiancé Dai Mubai was staying at the Rose Hotel. The chapter ended as Dai Mubai arrived and challenged Li Yan over the room dispute.

• Li Yan told Zhu Zhuqing that her pursuers had likely been sent to escort her, prompting her to vow to grow strong enough to end her family's marriage alliance.
• Xiao Wu treated Zhu Zhuqing's wounds and lent her clothes, then introduced her to Li Yan, Tang San, and the caravan's meal.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that she was going to Shrek Academy to find someone, and Xiao Wu invited her to travel with them.
• The group reached Suotuo City and chose to stay at the Rose Hotel instead of the Wang Clan Trading Company.
• At the hotel, the receptionist said only one room was available and that another was reserved for Dai Mubai, leaving Zhu Zhuqing shaken by the name and White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai arrived and confronted Li Yan, demanding to know who dared provoke him.

Li Yan provoked Dai Mubai, who threatened Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, prompting Tang San to fight him. Tang San overwhelmed Dai Mubai with his Blue Silver Grass skills and left him under attack from powerful conjured Soul Beasts.

• Li Yan called out Dai Mubai, who demanded that the group leave the beauties with him and threatened them with his level 37 Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Possession, but Xiao Wu challenged him and Tang San stepped in to protect her and Li Yan.
• Tang San caught Dai Mubai's tiger-claw strike and used Myriad Senluo and Thousand Transformations to conjure a blue tiger and multiple Soul Beasts.
• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Vajra Transformation to fight off the Soul Beasts, but Tang San activated Blue Silver Blessing and strengthened them until they reached the Soul Elder realm.
• Xiao Wu told Zhu Zhuqing that Tang San had defeated two Soul Ancestors before, while Zhu Zhuqing wondered who had taught Tang San such powerful Martial Soul techniques.

Li Yan and his companions reached Shrek Academy to register, while Zhu Zhuqing learned that her fiancé Dai Mubai was the man Tang San had defeated. At the academy, Zhu Zhuqing passed the entrance screening, and Dai Mubai realized who she was and that she had spent the night with Li Yan.

• Xiao Wu told Zhu Zhuqing that Li Yan had chosen Tang San’s Soul Rings and helped develop his powerful Soul Skills, impressing Zhu Zhuqing with his talent.
• Tang San defeated Dai Mubai and spared him after learning he attended Shrek Academy; Zhu Zhuqing recognized Dai Mubai as her runaway fiancé.
• Li Yan and Zhu Zhuqing shared a hotel room, where Li Yan released Little Black and Little Gold, took a cold bath, and slept on the floor while Zhu Zhuqing rested with the young dragons.
• The next morning, Li Yan, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing went to Shrek Academy, where they saw Ning Rongrong and heard Li Yan identify her as a member of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Zhu Zhuqing registered with her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul and rank twenty-six Soul Power, passed the screening, and left Dai Mubai stunned when he recognized her as his fiancée.